Juergen Schoenwaelder <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 09:43:34AM +0100, Martin Bjorklund wrote:
> > Juergen Schoenwaelder <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 09:23:57AM +0100, Martin Bjorklund wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > I think the use cases are rather obvious. I build a device and I like
> > > > > to rearrange existing models into a beautiful hierarchy (for some
> > > > > definition of beauty).
> > > > 
> > > > This would be pretty complicated.  Suppose I define my own beautiful
> > > > structure like this:
> > > > 
> > > >   container my-interfaces {
> > > >     x:mount-point "if" {
> > > >       x:mount-module "ietf-interfaces";
> > > >     }
> > > >   }
> > > >   container my-routing {
> > > >     x:mount-point "rtr" {
> > > >       x:mount-module "ietf-routing";
> > > >     }
> > > >   }
> > > > 
> > > > Note that with the mount-point defined in my draft, each mount-point
> > > > becomes itw own "jailed" or "chrooted" tree.  So references cannot
> > > > cross mount points.
> > > 
> > > Could be the same here.
> > >  
> > > > In this case, we have references between ietf-routing and
> > > > ietf-interfaces.  How would they work?
> > > 
> > > How do they work in your solution? If interfaces is jailed and routing
> > > is jailed, how does routing refer to the interfaces?
> > 
> > My solution does not support "name module mount".  It only supports
> > mouting of a "complete" set of modules (that are chrooted) - simply
> > because this is what we understand, have implemented, and have been
> > running for the last ~5 years.  (The same goes for ODL, I believe).
> 
> OK. I understand now that the whole set of modules on a mount point
> form one chroot environment. This was not clear to me yet but of
> course makes a lot of sense. So a static schema mount would have to
> define a set of modules and not just a single module to lead to the
> same chrooted behavior.

Yes, but then you can't use it to define your own beautiful
structure.  So then the question is if there is still a use case for
this?


/martin

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